Thinking Through Infrastructure Network (TTiN)
Infrastructure bears the weight of the past and orients the future. TTiN is a network for academics, policy makers, community organisers, and interested citizens who think through these temporalities and work with infrastructure to confront challenges and possibilities in the present juncture. The network webpage is available at https://researchcentres.citystgeorges.ac.uk/thinking-through-infrastructure-network.
From housing and transport to sanitation and energy systems, TTiN understands infrastructure as the foundational and often contradictory material that unevenly distributes vital resources, including not least the resource of life itself. It sees infrastructure as the site where forms of oppression are reproduced and contested, and where new kinds of liberation might be fought for and realised.
Though engaged with its technical and economic underpinnings, TTiN refuses a deterministic approach to infrastructure and pays close attention to its social, cultural, imaginative, and emotional aspects. Network participants think about infrastructure, but they also think through infrastructure to ask how it shapes lived experience, and to consider how this both curtails and enables our politics.
TTiN values methods from the arts and humanities alongside the social sciences, experimenting with activities from zine-making to comics co-creation to build community and think differently about infrastructure. It is committed to creating an intelligent and accessible space where specialists and non-specialists can reimagine together what infrastructure is, how it operates, and who it serves.
TTiN is comprised of online and in person events. For updates on forthcoming activities please follow @TTinfraNetwork on Instagram or Bluesky, or join the mail list by writing to dominic.davies@city.ac.uk. You can also listen back to recordings of previous events and the TTiN podcast at Soundcloud, Apple, and Spotify.
The network logo and posters are designed by Kremena Dimitrova. The full steering group is listed below.
Network Steering Group
Dominic Davies, Senior Lecturer in English, City St George’s, University of London
Kremena Dimitrova, Illustrator and Lecturer in Visual Culture, University of Portsmouth
Alexis Harris, Housing Policy Manager, Greater London Authority
Charmaine Brown, Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education, University of Greenwich
Nichola Kirkby, Doctoral Research Development Coordinator, City St George’s, University of London
Diya Gupta, Lecturer in Public History, City St George’s, University of London
Samir Harb, Einstein Fellow, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Reed Puc, PhD Student, City St George’s, University of London
